if it really does help me to gain a full nights sleep?
if it really does help me to gain a full nights sleep?
Yes
alvin99 wrote:
if it really does help me to gain a full nights sleep?
Bad in what sense? If you're talking about sleep quality and health yes it's terrible. Alcohol in any concentration is harmful to the body, so the 2-3 shots, a pretty decent amount, are already doing damage to your body.
On top of that, while alcohol will help most people nod off easier, it disrupts your sleep cycle. It's hugely disruptive to REM sleep, so even if you sleep 7 hours with alcohol you're getting significantly less REM sleep and more light sleep and end up less well rested.
If you're problem is getting a full night sleep, then what you really need is to address the underlying stress and/or anxiety that is causing the insomnia (assuming you aren't doing anything really throwing you off like sleeping at very odd hours, using lots of blue light before bed, very disruptive sleep environment, etc.)
Forgot to switch accounts @the430miler?
Your stupid random questions always keep the forum running
well, even if i wake up refreshed without any sign of hangover?
alvin99 wrote:if it really does help me to gain a full nights sleep?Personally I don't like to do 2-3 shots right before I go to bed. Maybe 30-60 minutes before hand. Kind of depends on what I've been drinking throughout the day.
alvin99 wrote:
well, even if i wake up refreshed without any sign of hangover?
2-3 shots won't give you a hangover usually....
You might feel refreshed, but that's not the same thing as being refreshed. You just hit your body with a solid dose of alcohol and slept worse.
The real problem is when 2-3 becomes 4-6, and then 8-12.
Yes. I knew someone who did this for years and one day when they could not drink (in the hospital for surgery) they went in to the Delirium Tremens (the DT's). Then their brain literally degenerated. Alcohol is pure evil.
Tolerance wrote:
The real problem is when 2-3 becomes 4-6, and then 8-12.
omg downward spiral. So dramatic.
2-3 is nothing. You'll live.
Apart from anything else it clobbers protein synthesis. From Magill: One drink decreases nocturnal HGH release by 30 percent. Two cuts it by 75–80 percent.
1) Do you drink besides the two or three shot of liquor at bed time?
2) Male or female?
3) Height, weight & body fat percent?
If you're 6'1" 175 lbs. at less than 10% body fat, two shots a night and no other alcohol would not do a lot of harm, but your risks of various cancers will increase. I doubt if you do drink two shots a night, that is the only alcohol you consume.
yes it's ill advised
It’s not great.
Try medicinal marijuana in edible form, by far the healthiest way to get to sleep.
Melatonin works for me.
Or maybe get an Rx for Ambien.
No
Jerry Maguire wrote:
Tolerance wrote:
The real problem is when 2-3 becomes 4-6, and then 8-12.
omg downward spiral. So dramatic.
2-3 is nothing. You'll live.
This is literally the stupidest possible answer. No, he won't live. We all die.
He's definitely not asking if the alcohol will kill him acutely in the hours after he drinks it. 2-3 drinks is not a ton, but it's far from nothing. You'll blow over the legal limit, genuinely drunk, if you drink that. Most people are still pretty normal and feel fine there, but for toxic effects on the body....he is hurting himself. Then the crux of his question was whether drinking the alcohol to sleep better was good, which it definitely isn't.
He will shorten his lifespan and healthspan by doing this. He will also sleep worse. It's a purely negative situation for him to drink this alcohol....at least if this is his only reason for doing it.
If he gets other things out of these drinks, it might be worth it.
uppitty wrote:
Then the crux of his question was whether drinking the alcohol to sleep better was good, which it definitely isn't.
He will also sleep worse.
He/she said they're sleeping better after the shots.
vinter wrote:
uppitty wrote:
Then the crux of his question was whether drinking the alcohol to sleep better was good, which it definitely isn't.
He will also sleep worse.
He/she said they're sleeping better after the shots.
You missed the rest of the thread. He feels like he is sleeping better, because alcohol helps you fall asleep. LM got the rest. You actually sleep worse, it a lighter more restless sleep with less REM.